I strongly support President Obama

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259. We are in complete agreement.

I'm glad that you see the AT&T/4th amendment/privacy connection for exactly what it is, and took the time to lay out the point that I was making. Of course I understand the use of the sarcasm 'smiley'.

People aren't looking at the rights of private companies in this debate. There's a lot of OUTRAGE directed toward big companies, but I'm not seeing a lot of people saying that you are taking advantage of their infrastructure, unless there is a specific law prohibiting what they do with that information - we are suggesting using the government to hamper free enterprise.

For the government to prohibit a practice that was financially profitable for a company without compensation might constitute a regulatory taking. Is that what we are fighting for. Instead of allowing the companies to sell our information (which is currently legal) we want to pass a law regulating what can and can't be sold and allow the phone company to calculate how much they 'were' making selling our 'secrets' and then the federal government cuts a check to all of these entities that are trading in our habits.

Personally, I'd rather we thought about just what it is we are trying to accomplish, and keep the OUTRAGE from affecting our judgement.